Snowflake

Tech Lead/Manager, AI-Native Authoring

US-WA-Bellevue. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own technical strategy and execution for the AI-Native Authoring team. You will lead engineers in building data science and AI development tools including Snowflake Notebooks and VS Code extensions.

What you will do

  • Own team technical strategy and execution from design to deployment
  • Provide technical oversight through design reviews and architecture discussions
  • Serve as an AI bar raiser by driving automated and self-improving solutions
  • Act as a technical contributor and subject matter expert
  • Mentor and coach engineers and grow a diverse team through hiring
  • Define team plans and deliverables while ensuring platform availability and performance
  • Collaborate with Product Management to translate user needs into technical roadmaps
  • Lead improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and standards
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for a Tier-1 production service

Required qualifications

  • 9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale systems in production and full-stack development
  • 2+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills
  • Strong hands-on skills to drill deep into complex system design and implementation
  • Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, API design patterns, security, performance, and scale
  • Experience with backend services and distributed systems
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience building for regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments
  • Knowledge of database internals and SQL

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to accelerate growth.